0501 Blender 2D to 3D Video Lecture | Learn 3D Modelling: The Ultimate Blender Guide - Software Development

all right now we're going to make a
thing it's something that can sit on
your desk has your initials and what I
need you to do is go pick out a five so
I use dafont.com and I need you to pick
out a font that has like very bold black
text like this one's good this one's bad
this one's bad because it has the lines
something that has big black huge text
okay so any of the script ones are not
going to turn out all well you could try
them but I guarantee that they're not
going to sell
and you use a combination thereof too so
if you find something that you know you
like and you find that I've lead
character let's say this font has a cool
character but this font doesn't you can
mix and match fonts too just as long as
they're all the same black very bold
text all right I like this and I think
I'm gonna use it so I'll save it and
then I'll open container folder
and they have this TTFN now on a PC the
fonts are a really hard thing to install
but out of mac you just double-click
them for a PC you have to go to C Drive
windows fonts and then you drag them in
here okay so I guess that's not too bad
either
there we go you can also double click
and install now wow that's pretty cool
must be a windows 7 thing I work with
primarily Macs
but once in a while you guys do shock me
with PC antics okay so in the
illustrator type out your initials and
that was called triggering fanfare so in
here once in a while you'll have it that
it pops up instantaneously sometimes you
have to restart illustrator it's pretty
horrible looking I won't lie
so actually I'm gonna hit choose
something else very quickly because I
like this I'm gonna go with this it's
elegant and it states of purpose so in
here
this is illustrator and this is just a
brand new document doesn't matter the
size of the document at all I just
wanted to make something that was big
enough to see and then what we're gonna
do is take this type and we're going to
rasterize it okay so to do that we just
go like this
expand object infill and that rasterized
it and then it turned it into vector
okay so the difference was before I
didn't have an outline now I do
okay so now you got three letters here
that's good now I'm just gonna fill them
with a color it doesn't really matter
what so let's go back to preview I'll
fill them green and then what I'm going
to do is export this so I'll export it
out as an SVG SVG and you'll see that
SVG isn't on the menu as far as export
is concerned
let's try file save as and there it is
SVG I'll say japw and we'll keep with
the default now keep in mind this
technique works for everything not just
letters like if you know how a live
trace with illustrator you could do this
very same technique so in the next video
let me show you what we could do in
blender with the information that we
just got from illustrator and I'll show
you there so Mimi in the next video
where we look at the finite ability to
turn letters into 3d text that we can
print out alright see you there